February 12th, 2010
Social Sciences Plaza B, room 5206

Sponsored by the Department of Economics
and
Center for the Study of Democracy
University of California, Irvine
Refreshments: 8:30-9:00

Welcoming remarks:

David BROWNSTONE, Chair, Department of Economics
Bernard GROFMAN, Director, Center for the Study of Democracy

Session I: 9:00-12:15

9:00-9:45: 
Toshihiro IHORI (Tokyo University) "Fiscal reform and economic activity: Public spending and private effort"
9:45-10:30:
Jan BRUECKNER (University of California, Irvine) "Sprawl and blight" (with Robert Helsley)

10:30-10:45: Coffee Break
 
10:45-11:30: 
Sam BUCOVETSKY (York University) "Urban status seeking" (with Amihai GLAZER)
11:30-12:15:
Hideki KONISHI (Waseda University) "Yardstick competition and the optimal number of jurisdictions in a political economy of fiscal federalism"

Lunch: 12:15-1:15

Session II: 1:45-4:30

1:15-2:00:
Heigo KAMEDA (Kwansai University) "What changes the effect of fiscal policy? Japanese Experience."
2:00-2:45:
Takumi NAITO (Tokyo Institute of Technology and UC San Diego) "Aid for trade and global growth"

2:45-3:00: Coffee Break

3:00-3:45:
Hiroki KONDO (Sophia University) "A model of endogenous determination of intergenerational housing pattern and its applications"
3:45-4:30:
Takero DOI (Keio University) "Dynamic Analysis on Incidence of Corporate Income Tax"